Wilhelm Tomaschek, or Vilém Tomášek (May 26, 1841,

Olomouc Olomouc (, , ; german: Olmütz; pl, Ołomuniec ; la, Olomucium or ''Iuliomontium'') is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 99,000 inhabitants, and its larger urban zone has a population of about 384,000 inhabitants (2019). Located on t ...

– September 9, 1901,

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) was a

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and orientalist. He is known for his work in the fields of historical

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and historical ethnography.Thibaut - Zycha, Volume 10
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, in

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, he received his education at the

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(1860–64), afterwards working as a teacher in gymnasiums at Sankt Pölten and Vienna. On the strength of the first volume of ''Centralasiatische Studien'', he was named an associate professor of geography at the

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in 1877. In 1881 he attained the rank of full professor, and in 1885, was appointed chair of

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at the University of Vienna. In 1899 he became a regular member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences. In 1933 the thoroughfare ''Tomaschekstraße'', in the district of

Floridsdorf Floridsdorf (; Central Bavarian: ''Fluridsduaf'') is the 21st district of Vienna (german: 21. Bezirk, Floridsdorf), located in the northern part of the city and comprising seven formerly independent communities: Floridsdorf, Donaufeld, Greater Je ...

(Vienna), was named in his honor.

Literary works

* ''Centralasiatische Studien. I. Sogdiana'', 1877 – Central Asian studies;

Sogdiana Sogdia ( Sogdian: ) or Sogdiana was an ancient Iranian civilization between the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, and in present-day Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Sogdiana was also a province of the Achaemenid Empi ...

. * ''Centralasiatische Studien. II. Die Pamir-Dialekte'', 1880 – Central Asian studies; Pamir dialects. * ''Zur historischen Topographie von Persien. I. Die Straßenzüge der tabula Peutingeriana'', 1883 – Historical topography of

Persia Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

, The streets of

Tabula Peutingeriana ' (Latin for "The Peutinger Map"), also referred to as Peutinger's Tabula or Peutinger Table, is an illustrated ' (ancient Roman road map) showing the layout of the '' cursus publicus'', the road network of the Roman Empire. The map is a 13th-ce ...

. * ''Zur historischen Topographie von Persien. II. Die Wege durch die Persische Wüste'', 1885 – Historical topography of Persia. II. Routes through the Persian desert. * ''Zur historischen Topographie von Kleinasien im Mittelalter'', 1891 – Historical topography of

Asia Minor Anatolia, tr, Anadolu Yarımadası), and the Anatolian plateau, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent. It constitutes the major part of modern-day Turkey. The re ...

in the

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...

. * ''Die alten Thraker. Eine ethnologische Untersuchung''. 3 volumes. Vienna: Tempsky, 1893–1894 – The ancient

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. An ethnographic study.de.Wikisource
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